Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivatea methodology, called Tropos, for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion ...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
As development techniques, paradigms and platforms evolve far more quickly than domain applications, software modernization and migration, is a constant challenge to software engin...
Software engineering projects are inherently cooperative, requiring many software engineers to coordinate their efforts to produce a large software system. Integral to this effort...
Software testing and software fault tolerance are two major techniques for developing reliable software systems, yet limited empirical data are available in the literature to eval...
Michael R. Lyu, Zubin Huang, Sam K. S. Sze, Xia Ca...
Software has jumped "out of the box" ? it controls critical systems, pervades business and commerce, and infuses entertainment, communication, and other everyday activiti...